From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6483 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2020 14:25:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 17 Dec 2020 14:25:21 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 51B0C9C833; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:25:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8429C7BB; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:24:56 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; secure) header.d=mxes.net header.i=@mxes.net header.b="tU8xZYaF"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 34BD09C7BB; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:24:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp-out-3.mxes.net (smtp-out-3.mxes.net [198.205.123.68]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E221F9C7B5 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:24:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [10.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D96F1759B2 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:24:48 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mxes.net; s=mta; t=1608215089; bh=z3G7zjCAkTVmj7R/nVOz64BW0RO9y1O46fYUDjfh2FI=; h=From:Subject:Date:References:To:In-Reply-To:From; b=tU8xZYaFgujDrr7IXfOlkY3HVkoZKGD2+6tbXDcKdsXQ/k+rVCG05dbT/0F5tXgDM ucGLPT2Upq2Rtc1xLAaQ9YwhhSRyTr0BthGrE/hQ9rPGmhGFs5Mtg7YJnFBt0QCgcT 42R71GdxJgFTDVvLUc/ABLVLDygV5DwEBtJTf0iA= From: Ronald Natalie Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_7F65A4CB-61EF-408E-A6A0-57B612F28325" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.120.23.2.4\)) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:24:47 -0500 References: To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <0EA02917-243E-4612-9F7E-D370EE0A7C2E@ronnatalie.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.4) X-Sent-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] Algol 68 and Unix (was cron and at ...) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Apple-Mail=_7F65A4CB-61EF-408E-A6A0-57B612F28325 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Dec 17, 2020, at 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy = wrote: >=20 > shell, including the story of do...done, has often been told. It > shows up most vividly in the condition part of if and while > statements. I was never so happy as when SVR2 came out and found that someone had = =E2=80=9Ctranslated=E2=80=9D the shell source code back into C. --Apple-Mail=_7F65A4CB-61EF-408E-A6A0-57B612F28325 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On Dec 17, 2020, at 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

shell, including the story of = do...done, has often been told. It
shows up most vividly in the condition part of if and = while
statements.

I was never so happy as when SVR2 came out and found that = someone had =E2=80=9Ctranslated=E2=80=9D the shell source code back into = C.

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